The Healthy Way: Thigh gap

ninerbuff wrote: »

sparkledazle wrote: »

My modeling career is just taking of I will be auditing to be a Victoria secret model next year. My manager has mentioned he wants me to shred a few pounds and tone my legs. When I was like 10-12 I engaged in sprinting which has built up muscular legs. I need to get rid of them or... I lose my contract

You're not going to lose muscle from the legs without compromising your health, or opting to use a wheelchair so you don't use your legs at all.
And honestly, a 2 year stint in sprinting at just barely puberty will unlikely result in muscular legs. Lots of females discount genetics as the reason why their legs are bigger and you can't change your genetics.

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This.

Plus, I lift heavy things and squat a lot and consider myself to have pretty muscular legs. And I have thigh gap (when laying down with my knees up). It's all in the hips because, trust me, I'm not a waif on the bottom.

Speaking of hip and butt size....I wonder how this impacts my IQ.

yesimpson wrote: »

sparkledazle wrote: »

19 turning 20

I wonder if this interest in a thigh gap is an age thing. I'm 5 years older than you and I literally didn't know what one was until a year ago - it was never a thing I was even aware of, much less envied, in my teenage years. I'm sure there was an equally silly 'in-thing' girls were after in 2010, but this one always confuses me.

I'm 38 and it definitely wasn't a thing back in my day. The big models were Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Crawford, Helena Christenson, etc. and I would say their outer body shapes were paid way more attention to than the inner thigh shape.

Photoshop.

Don't do squats and lunges. I do them and my legs have got bigger.

SonicDeathMonkey80 wrote: »

Eat tissues like your future coworkers do

I eat tissue - muscle tissue.

chivalryder wrote: »

In case anyone was actually wondering, this is what goes into a Victoria Secret ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbnl7NZ-ok

I'm sure you'll be just fine the way you are. If anything, give yourself a very, very slight caloric defecit, and start lifting heavy with a mixture of (fun) cardio. Muscle definition will give you a better looking body than being skinny.

This actually reminds me--did your manager actually suggest a thigh gap or is that your interpretation of "shred a few pounds and tone your legs"? Because the majority of VS poses are not even going to demonstrate a thigh gap or lack thereof. You can definitely be tall and lanky without the gap.

Asher_Ethan wrote: »

I'm so glad I don't have a thigh gap... The other day I was in the rest room with my phone and I dropped my phone... If I had a thigh gap it would have gone right into the toilet.

sparkledazle wrote:

My modeling career is just taking of (sic) I will be auditing (sic) to be a Victoria (sic) secret (sic) model next year.
My manager has mentioned he wants me to shred (sic) a few pounds ands and tone my legs.

It would be better if you stayed in high school, maybe even take a health class or do some research
on your own to learn about nutrition, eating disorders, healthy weight, healthy calorie intake, etc.

BTW, does your manager have any education in health, nutrition, personal training, etc.?
Or is he just a business guy who thinks he can tell girls they should endanger their health for money?

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ahrisoula wrote:

I'm 5" 11" and the weight requirements for that are 83-100.

At 5'11" and 100 lb, your BMI would be 13.9 which is *_dangerously_* underweight.
(133 would be the bottom of a healthy weight range, with a BMI of 18.5.)
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmicalc.htm
I'd be surprised if you'd have enough body fat to maintain normal function, let alone hips & breasts...
which are useful if one is to be modelling lingere. ("High fashion", not so much; they want living coat
hangers, not people with curves.)

Thigh gaps, a bikini bridge (that hollow between your hip bones when you lay down with your bikini on and the fabric gaps) and 45 degree curves in lower backs so you too can have a Kardashian butt.. These are the things the media says we must have to be considered attractive. The fact that none of it is attainable for 99.99999% of women is besides the point. I am beyond caring what these idiots tell us. The best we can or should hope for is to be the best we can be taking our body shapes, genetics, age and histories into account. If you have ever seen some of these models in real life you would be shocked to know that they have acne, cellulite and all manner of flaws just like the rest of us. Of we had hair stylists, make up artists, stylists and wind machines to blow our hair back and PhotoShop artists to cut off ribs and hip bones in our bedrooms every morning we would look like models too.